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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 8 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Battles of Conscience: British Pacifists and the Second World War by Tobias Kelly
    Battles of Conscience: British Pacifists and the Second World War - by Tobias Kelly

    £22.00   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781784743949 | ISBN 10: 1784743941

    A ground-breaking new study brings us a very different picture of the Second World War, asking fundamental questions about ethical commitments.  Accounts of the Second World War usually involve tales of bravery in battle, or stoicism on the h ... more

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  • Cover image of book To Die in Spring by Ralf Rothmann
    To Die in Spring - by Ralf Rothmann

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781509812868 | ISBN 10: 1509812865

    "[To Die in Spring] holds its own against [Günter] Grass and [Erich Maria] Remarque; it is an excellent work, and one deserving of its wide readership."(Guardian) Walter Urban and Friedrich ‘Fiete’ Caroli work side by side as hands on a dairy ... more

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  • Cover image of book Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
    Alan Turing: The Enigma - by Andrew Hodges

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781784700089 | ISBN 10: 1784700088

    The official book behind the eight-time Oscar-nominated film, The Imitation Game, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley   Alan Turing was the mathematician whose cipher-cracking transformed the Second World War. Taken on by Brit ... more

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  • Cover image of book What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France by Mary Louise Roberts
    What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France - by Mary Louise Roberts

    £14.50   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780226923116 | ISBN 10: 0226923118

    How do you convince men to charge across heavily mined beaches into deadly machine-gun fire? Do you appeal to their bonds with their fellow soldiers, their patriotism, their desire to end tyranny and mass murder? Certainly — but if you’re the US Army ... more

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  • Cover image of book On the Eve: The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War by Bernard Wasserstein
    On the Eve: The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War - by Bernard Wasserstein

    £12.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781846681905 | ISBN 10: 1846681901

    A major history examining the realities of Jewish life across Europe up to the very eve of World War Two.  This is the portrait of a world on the eve of its destruction. Bernard Wasserstein presents a disturbing interpretation of the collapse ... more

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  • Cover image of book A People
    A People's History of the Second World War: Resistance Versus Empire - by Donny Gluckstein

    £22.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780745328027 | ISBN 10: 0745328024

    A People's History of the Second World War unearths the fascinating history of the war as fought 'from below'. Until now, the vast majority of historical accounts have focussed on the conflict between the Allied and Axis powers for imperialist master ... more

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  • Cover image of book Half of the Human Race by Anthony Quinn
    Half of the Human Race - by Anthony Quinn

    £7.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099531944 | ISBN 10: 0099531941

    Summer of 1911. The streets of London ring with cheers for a new king's coronation and the cries of increasingly violent suffragette protests.   Connie Callaway, fired up by the possibilities of independence, wants more than the conventio ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Rescue Man by Anthony Quinn
    The Rescue Man - by Anthony Quinn

    £16.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099531937 | ISBN 10: 0099531933

    Summer, 1939. Historian Tom Baines is at work on a study of Liverpool's architectural past. His mood, like the rest of the country's, is distracted by the ominous rumblings from Europe; if war should come, will the buildings and streets that he docum ... more

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